Romanticism is one of the most important historical events of all time.
Unlike the things that, in fact, are about history
Romanticism is neither war nor technology or political gatherings.
It refers to the birth of new ideas, a new worldview and the way one feels.
Romanticism began in Western Europe in the middle of the 18th century as part of the work of artists, poets and philosophers.
As it subsequently spreads around the world,
Changing the way people see nature, children, love, sex, money and work.
Nowadays, we are all, little or very, in some aspect of our sensuality, romantics.
Romanticism is best understood as a reaction to the birth of a modern world
and some of its key features: industrialization, urbanization, secularization and consumerism.
What follows are some of the key points in the history of Romanticism:
Mare, Paris, May 1762
Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau published a book on raising children: “Emil” or “For the upbringing”.
The work contains arguments against the oppressive world of adults.
And praises the natural kindness, spontaneity and wisdom of young children.
In some places, the book tries, almost in panic, to make mothers breastfeed their children.
This is one of the first preserved evidence of this practice in Western civilizations.
The world around Rousseau is increasingly based on rational, scientific and technological.
He becomes more and more reasonable, planned, sterile and bureaucratic. As an opponent of all this, Rousseau puts the child,
the primordial rebel, a representative of everything pure, uncircumcised, and beyond the discipline of adults.
It is the foundation of creativity and genius.
For the first time in Western history, not the severity and self-control of adults,
and the freedom of tradition, the natural, the innocence and the sweetness of the child are presented as something that we must strive for.
Brook Street, London, August 1770
The young 17-year-old poet Thomas Chatterton
absorbs some arsenic and puts an end to his life in his small room suite.
It sucks because no one wants to publish his poetry,
which is filled with beauty and wisdom.
Another reason is that his family, not understanding his passion, press him to become a lawyer.
Soon about the young beautiful poet with, long to shoulders, brown hair
a cult is created.
It becomes an emblem of something that will become very important to romantics:
the idea of a sensual, doomed to suffering from fate, a man, often an artist, rejected by a cruel, vulgar world.
Chatterton became the first among a number of romantic heroes, from Byron to Keats to Van Gogh,
and nowadays: Jim Morris and Amy Winehouse.
Romanticism also takes a lot of ideas from Christianity.
The romantic character is identified with the figure of Christ.
The loser, who is actually noble, in the eyes of the few who understand.
Leipzig, Germany, 1774.
The German author Goethe publishes the typical romantic love story:
“The Suffering of Young Werther”.
She tells the story of a passionate, but doomed, love affair between a young poet named Werther and a handsome smart young lady, Charlotte.
Unfortunately for Werther, Charlotte is married. So their love is doomed by them
the very beginning, but that does not stop Verter, the dreamy and practical youth,
who loves art more than anything else. Like Chatterton, Verter is also under pressure
to have a reasonable job and to join the bourgeois, but he can think
for only one:
The gust of your heart. Finally, Vetter can not bear the impossibility of her fate
suicide, but instead of being declared a lunatic and crazy head,
Goethe, one of the founders of Romanticism, directs all our sympathy
to Verter.
We are expected to be on his side, admiring his passion and completely impractical
respect for love. The book becomes the most popular book of the whole generation. Three
millions of copies of it are printed.
Napoleon announces the work of the greatest in European literature. She
dramatically changes the way many people look at love, putting dramatic
love lows to the more traditional and rational care of the class,
ancestry and money. For a romantic
is always right and dignified
to follow your heart. The catastrophic consequences are
just a proof of how dry and heartless the so-called adult world can be.
Madrid, Spain, 1798.
The painter Francisco Goya creates one of the most iconic paintings, called “The Sleep of the Wise, Monsters of the Mind”.
The picture covers the typical romantic interest in the limits of reason and towards
the power of the irrational over the human fragile mind. Being a romantic means to have
sympathy for madness and being vindictive to
bombastic claims such as the triumph of rational, scientific and logical.
Lake District, England, December 1799
The young English poet William Wordsworth moved with his sister Dorothy in place,
which became one of the most famous residences in England’s history: Dav Covege, Grasmere’s
the boundary of Lake District.
Here they will spend the next 9 years and Wordsworth will write some of the greatest poetry created in English,
praising something that is often lost in focus: nature.
He will write about daffodils, oaks, clouds, butterflies and rivers, and his
work will charm and seduce Europe. Within a generation, on Wordsworth’s own accounts,
in Lake District there will be more tourists than sheep.
But it is most important that hatred can be found in Wordswood’s poetry
to everything mechanical and industrial. When many years later the railway line
threatens to be built through the Lake District Wordsworth and its followers
all in their power to redirect the train path, a symbol of Wordsworth’s hatred of technology.
Being a romantic means to stand on the side of nature against the industry.
It means preferring a daffodil to the viaduct, a tree in front of a factory. The moment when
huge gullies from Britain are covered with often monstrous new cities, which
make Europe rich, Wordsworth’s typical romance stands on the side of
the natural and simple life.
Niagara, USA, September 1829
The American painter Thomas Cole painted one of his most recognizable drawings, the mighty Niagara Falls and several
Indians in the foreground.
Cole collects the name of an artist, depicting majestic scenes, extensive views,
located on the territory of America, showing pride in nature in its most impressive state. The man seems
lost and lean, compared to her. This is a very common romantic worldview because
romanticians do not believe in God but they spend their lives in search of emotions,
which were possible to be found in religions when they were still a large part of human being, and placing them in large
open spaces. Being a romantic means to find relief from
the pressure of the chaotic city in the splendor of nature,
which surpasses everything created by man and removes all the worries.
Westminster, London, April 1847
14 years after some designated incompetent officials destroyed the British Parliament by fire, a new building opened doors, the design
was created by the newly-growing star of architecture: Augustine Pudin.
Especially, although the building is new,
is designed to look old. In fact, very old, even medieval. Complete with
knightly armor and sculptures of seated angels. When architect Pudin defends the design of the building,
he claims the building is worthy because it reminds of the pre-industrial past
of your country before it gets rid of the money
or technologies.
A medieval cult rises, a great subject that romantics
they connect with the world of knights and castles, dignities that, in their opinion, are not present
in the factories and shopping centers of the modern world.
Saint-Germain, Paris, May 1863
The French poet, Charles Baudelaire, wrote a prosaic poem praising the unusual nature of that type of person whom he calls a flaneur, a stranger or an idiot.
A simple, humming man who does not have a specific job to do, nor a definite place to go.
A person who simply spends his time looking around the vibrant streets of the modern city,
making their way through the crowds, but not in a hurry, but slowly, listening
less of the human conversations, creating stories about the lives of the people around him.
Bodller, a typical romance, admires the playfulness and lack of practicality in the flaneur.
This guy is not a waste of time.
It does not matter that he does not have a job. For Bodler he is a prince,
different from boring people living from salary to salary, as slaves to the new offices of capitalism.
Le Havre, April 1891
French artist Paul Gauguin sailed to Tahiti, hoping to escape all things artificially and conventionally.
He goes to live in the Southern Seas, then returns back to the end of his life. When he returns he draws young local women,
which look calm and natural without any in itself.
In his eyes, they are the proof that civilization has fallen ill.
Central Romantic Value.
The romantic movement has irreversibly changed our feelings,
while the world has become even more technological and rational. Romanticism
supports irrational, untrained, exotic and childish,
and naive.
Originally Romanticism reveals something youthful and immature.
On the other hand, insensibility, dogmatism and arrogance
can be found in many aspects of the modern.
One would have hoped that this would not be the end of history. That one day, ever in the future.
we will be able to smooth out the worst sides of the modern, through the best countries
Romanticism to create a more evolved and different world.
As some would say: The Age of Maturity.
Unlike the things that, in fact, are about history
Romanticism is neither war nor technology or political gatherings.
It refers to the birth of new ideas, a new worldview and the way one feels.
Romanticism began in Western Europe in the middle of the 18th century as part of the work of artists, poets and philosophers.
As it subsequently spreads around the world,
Changing the way people see nature, children, love, sex, money and work.
Nowadays, we are all, little or very, in some aspect of our sensuality, romantics.
Romanticism is best understood as a reaction to the birth of a modern world
and some of its key features: industrialization, urbanization, secularization and consumerism.
What follows are some of the key points in the history of Romanticism:
Mare, Paris, May 1762
Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau published a book on raising children: “Emil” or “For the upbringing”.
The work contains arguments against the oppressive world of adults.
And praises the natural kindness, spontaneity and wisdom of young children.
In some places, the book tries, almost in panic, to make mothers breastfeed their children.
This is one of the first preserved evidence of this practice in Western civilizations.
The world around Rousseau is increasingly based on rational, scientific and technological.
He becomes more and more reasonable, planned, sterile and bureaucratic. As an opponent of all this, Rousseau puts the child,
the primordial rebel, a representative of everything pure, uncircumcised, and beyond the discipline of adults.
It is the foundation of creativity and genius.
For the first time in Western history, not the severity and self-control of adults,
and the freedom of tradition, the natural, the innocence and the sweetness of the child are presented as something that we must strive for.
Brook Street, London, August 1770
The young 17-year-old poet Thomas Chatterton
absorbs some arsenic and puts an end to his life in his small room suite.
It sucks because no one wants to publish his poetry,
which is filled with beauty and wisdom.
Another reason is that his family, not understanding his passion, press him to become a lawyer.
Soon about the young beautiful poet with, long to shoulders, brown hair
a cult is created.
It becomes an emblem of something that will become very important to romantics:
the idea of a sensual, doomed to suffering from fate, a man, often an artist, rejected by a cruel, vulgar world.
Chatterton became the first among a number of romantic heroes, from Byron to Keats to Van Gogh,
and nowadays: Jim Morris and Amy Winehouse.
Romanticism also takes a lot of ideas from Christianity.
The romantic character is identified with the figure of Christ.
The loser, who is actually noble, in the eyes of the few who understand.
Leipzig, Germany, 1774.
The German author Goethe publishes the typical romantic love story:
“The Suffering of Young Werther”.
She tells the story of a passionate, but doomed, love affair between a young poet named Werther and a handsome smart young lady, Charlotte.
Unfortunately for Werther, Charlotte is married. So their love is doomed by them
the very beginning, but that does not stop Verter, the dreamy and practical youth,
who loves art more than anything else. Like Chatterton, Verter is also under pressure
to have a reasonable job and to join the bourgeois, but he can think
for only one:
The gust of your heart. Finally, Vetter can not bear the impossibility of her fate
suicide, but instead of being declared a lunatic and crazy head,
Goethe, one of the founders of Romanticism, directs all our sympathy
to Verter.
We are expected to be on his side, admiring his passion and completely impractical
respect for love. The book becomes the most popular book of the whole generation. Three
millions of copies of it are printed.
Napoleon announces the work of the greatest in European literature. She
dramatically changes the way many people look at love, putting dramatic
love lows to the more traditional and rational care of the class,
ancestry and money. For a romantic
is always right and dignified
to follow your heart. The catastrophic consequences are
just a proof of how dry and heartless the so-called adult world can be.
Madrid, Spain, 1798.
The painter Francisco Goya creates one of the most iconic paintings, called “The Sleep of the Wise, Monsters of the Mind”.
The picture covers the typical romantic interest in the limits of reason and towards
the power of the irrational over the human fragile mind. Being a romantic means to have
sympathy for madness and being vindictive to
bombastic claims such as the triumph of rational, scientific and logical.
Lake District, England, December 1799
The young English poet William Wordsworth moved with his sister Dorothy in place,
which became one of the most famous residences in England’s history: Dav Covege, Grasmere’s
the boundary of Lake District.
Here they will spend the next 9 years and Wordsworth will write some of the greatest poetry created in English,
praising something that is often lost in focus: nature.
He will write about daffodils, oaks, clouds, butterflies and rivers, and his
work will charm and seduce Europe. Within a generation, on Wordsworth’s own accounts,
in Lake District there will be more tourists than sheep.
But it is most important that hatred can be found in Wordswood’s poetry
to everything mechanical and industrial. When many years later the railway line
threatens to be built through the Lake District Wordsworth and its followers
all in their power to redirect the train path, a symbol of Wordsworth’s hatred of technology.
Being a romantic means to stand on the side of nature against the industry.
It means preferring a daffodil to the viaduct, a tree in front of a factory. The moment when
huge gullies from Britain are covered with often monstrous new cities, which
make Europe rich, Wordsworth’s typical romance stands on the side of
the natural and simple life.
Niagara, USA, September 1829
The American painter Thomas Cole painted one of his most recognizable drawings, the mighty Niagara Falls and several
Indians in the foreground.
Cole collects the name of an artist, depicting majestic scenes, extensive views,
located on the territory of America, showing pride in nature in its most impressive state. The man seems
lost and lean, compared to her. This is a very common romantic worldview because
romanticians do not believe in God but they spend their lives in search of emotions,
which were possible to be found in religions when they were still a large part of human being, and placing them in large
open spaces. Being a romantic means to find relief from
the pressure of the chaotic city in the splendor of nature,
which surpasses everything created by man and removes all the worries.
Westminster, London, April 1847
14 years after some designated incompetent officials destroyed the British Parliament by fire, a new building opened doors, the design
was created by the newly-growing star of architecture: Augustine Pudin.
Especially, although the building is new,
is designed to look old. In fact, very old, even medieval. Complete with
knightly armor and sculptures of seated angels. When architect Pudin defends the design of the building,
he claims the building is worthy because it reminds of the pre-industrial past
of your country before it gets rid of the money
or technologies.
A medieval cult rises, a great subject that romantics
they connect with the world of knights and castles, dignities that, in their opinion, are not present
in the factories and shopping centers of the modern world.
Saint-Germain, Paris, May 1863
The French poet, Charles Baudelaire, wrote a prosaic poem praising the unusual nature of that type of person whom he calls a flaneur, a stranger or an idiot.
A simple, humming man who does not have a specific job to do, nor a definite place to go.
A person who simply spends his time looking around the vibrant streets of the modern city,
making their way through the crowds, but not in a hurry, but slowly, listening
less of the human conversations, creating stories about the lives of the people around him.
Bodller, a typical romance, admires the playfulness and lack of practicality in the flaneur.
This guy is not a waste of time.
It does not matter that he does not have a job. For Bodler he is a prince,
different from boring people living from salary to salary, as slaves to the new offices of capitalism.
Le Havre, April 1891
French artist Paul Gauguin sailed to Tahiti, hoping to escape all things artificially and conventionally.
He goes to live in the Southern Seas, then returns back to the end of his life. When he returns he draws young local women,
which look calm and natural without any in itself.
In his eyes, they are the proof that civilization has fallen ill.
Central Romantic Value.
The romantic movement has irreversibly changed our feelings,
while the world has become even more technological and rational. Romanticism
supports irrational, untrained, exotic and childish,
and naive.
Originally Romanticism reveals something youthful and immature.
On the other hand, insensibility, dogmatism and arrogance
can be found in many aspects of the modern.
One would have hoped that this would not be the end of history. That one day, ever in the future.
we will be able to smooth out the worst sides of the modern, through the best countries
Romanticism to create a more evolved and different world.
As some would say: The Age of Maturity.
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